- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Work Packaging for Project Control.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 6-6, November 1988, 34 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- It has been said that a manager can only effectively coordinate the work of about seven individuals reporting directly to that manager. Whatever the numbers might be, there is a finite limit to the scope of an operation that an individual can comprehend and manage in detail. A president of a large business or a project manager of a large project cannot possibly know all the details of every included operation. Instead, at the lowest management level, operations are managed in detail; at each higher level, operations are managed at a more summary level, the president or project manager providing broad control, with detailed involvement only on an exception basis. It is for this reason that organizational structures were born.